[arch-dev-public] giFT (was: Third list of removal candidates)

On Nov 29, 2007 2:30 PM, K. Piche wrote:

On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 14:09 +0200, Roman Kyrylych wrote:

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2007/11/27, Eric Belanger :

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[skipping gnome packages that Jan answered about]

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evms Description: Enterprise Volume Management System I don't know who uses it but it's kinda important package.

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giftoxic Description: A GTK frontend for the giFT daemon It's from 2003. giFT and OpenFT are from 2004 and 2005. Oldies... :-)

I won't cry if we drop the gift set of packages. No updates in years.

Does anyone know why this project stopped development? I installed it the other day, gave it a try, and was astounded to see it hasn't been updated in forever. Seems like a good concept but maybe bittorrent just grew too strong. -Dan